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Diddy’s Best Friend Charlie Liucci is Being Loud About His Next Moves Will Be Following Acquittal
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Mugabeflation and the $2.5 Million Loaf of Bread
Usually when I get an sms (text message) from a young journalist needing to see me, it’s about career advice. But when I get one from a young journalist from Zimbabwe, I know it’s because that young journalist needs bread—and not of the cash kind. Robert Mugabe’s government has clamped down on the independent media…
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Comfort Level Rising
CLEVELAND – Well, that wasn’t much of a debate. Not that I expected it to be. As Democratic presidential hopefuls criss-crossed Ohio last week in search of votes, their respective debate strategies became obvious long before they took the stage.Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York would attack, throwing all her best punches to frustrate Sen.…
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Please Leave it Behind
Enough, I get it already! Hillary is different than Bush. Barack is different than Bush. At the risk of sounding outright crazy, I think they both need to be more like Bush — for the sake of our children. Let me explain. Less than 12 months into office, President George W. Bush pushed in the…
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To Denounce and Reject
It was the fall of 1985 when Min. Louis Farrakhan burst onto the New York City political scene. I was a journalism student at Columbia University at the time and, truth be told, I was woefully naive and politically uninformed. I had only a vague idea of who Farrakhan was until he gave a controversial…
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He’s Black and We’re Proud
It is supremely ironic that Barack Obama, the candidate who seeks to bury race as an issue in this campaign season, owes his overwhelming support among blacks to the continued power of black nationalism. For a century and a half, black nationalism has provided the main ideological challenge to the liberal, social democratic sensibilities that…
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Not The Race Race
It is not a candidate’s race that ultimately determines the outcome of an election in this country, but the power and appeal of his or her message—especially if that message addresses the needs and concerns of all ethnic groups, not just people of color or whites. Since his early days as an Illinois state senator,…
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The Clinton-Obama Mash-up
In music, they call laying the lyrics from one song over music from a different genre a “mash-up.” My favorite example is “Collision Course,” the effort from rock group Linkin Park and Jay-Z that resulted in the song “Numb/Encore,” used in the 2006 movie re-make of Miami Vice. Like these “mash-ups” that take two songs…
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Kosovo — What's at Stake?
The early returns are discouraging for a harmonious transition to independence for Kosovo. The week following Kosovo’s dramatic declaration of independence saw sporadic violence in both Serbia and Kosovo, and the international community dividing itself into supporters and opponents of the declaration. While it’s unclear how the situation will unfold in the weeks and months…
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Using Our Roots Against Us
Monday’s release of a photo showing Barack Obama dressed as a Somali elder during his 2006 visit to northeastern Kenya was not just cynical, cowardly and out-of-bounds, it was also deeply ironic. After all, it is Black History Month. During February, PBS featured the special African American Lives II. The show, hosted by The Root…
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Queer, Dead and Nobody Cares
Little Lawrence King was queer. Not just in some identity politics way, but literally. Despite the innocence of his round, brown cheeks and puppy dog eyes, the kid was a threatening oddity at his Ventura County junior high school. Either because he was brave or naïve, or because he just couldn’t help himself, Lawrence reveled…
